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Seven years ago, Southern California businessman Juan Valle turned his gaze back to his native country of Mexico.Valle, president of Jonathan Louis, a Gardena-based maker of living room furniture, opened a factory in Tijuana to build sofas, cre

The Koroma administration is not a government of “sourcing”, or “intentions” ... (164 Km), by 2010, reconstruction work commenced on the Lungi – Port Loko ... throughout the country were upgraded, a joint European Union and Sierra ... in investment opportunities, and in our international relations, is it not a ...

North American west coast container ports experienced a slight increase in year-over-year traffic in the third quarter of 2013. Overall throughput to major west coast ports in the U.S., Mexico and Canada rose 1.7 percent from 6,176,870 20-foot-equivalent containers in third quarter 2012 to 6,283,238 TEUs in third quarter 2013.

Each year Canadian governments purchase over $100 billion in goods and services, and the EU purchases more than $2.7 trillion annually.
The Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) procurement provisions are significant because they open up procurements by...

1. Background and key issuesWTO rules applying to international fish trade and treaties, as well as conventions governing fisheries management and conservation, are of importance for ACP fish-producing countries.Trade in fisheries and fishery products are dealt with in the WTO non-agricultural market access negotiations. Many observers consider that until there is an improvement in the broader WTO trade negotiations, there will be little progres...

Argentina’s biodiesel industry decimated by potential EU duties
Meghan Sapp
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April 16, 2013
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In Argentina, Carbio says that the biodiesel industry is running at 40% to 50% production capacity as a result of the anti-dumping investigation currently under way by the European Commission. The potential for duties has sent shockwaves through the industry and biodiesel exports have sunk, though they have been replaced by soy oil exports.

Major European port players met in Brussels this week to discuss the European Union’s plans to review EU ports policy at a specially convened mini-hearing.
The new port services provision has been previously touted in a number of different forms and in its current guise has caused much unease among EU ports since it was announced in May by Siim Kallas, European Commissioner for mobility and transport.

India’s port regulator Tariff Authority for Major Ports has again deferred its decision on a proposal to increase service rates at the Port of Jawaharlal Nehru until Dec. 31, citing “continuing delays” in procedural requirements that are to be complied with by the port authority.

We continue to hear often about how there is a shortage of engineers and how schools are not producing enough engineers to meeting the demand. One of the current global crises is lack of engineers to implement various projects. As a result, different governments are implementing various strategies to offset this shortage from recruiting skilled foreign internationals to developing educational incentives to encourage more students to take up engineering as a professional choice. This list details some global cities that have interesting projects and also have mandated governmental policies to recruit skilled immigrants: